Changing Default User Permissions between two users.

Hello,
I have two users on Mac OSX 10.7.  Each of the users are members of the same group.  What I need to do is make both users have the ability to read and write files to each other.
As per this article: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2202
I went into: /etc/launchd-user.conf and set umask as 002.
I assumed that this would work.  When I did, I logged off and logged back on and create a file in /tmp and found that it was still being created with 644.
Any advice?
Chris

But that will only help on the one "Disk Image".
If we have a bunch of files across different directories, etc.  I want to make sure that we can both share files.
For example, I have a Users/Shared and I want every file created in that directory to be avilable to all users in that group.

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